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  1. The last 2 or 3 days I have noticed a drop of 50% on some of oneopinion's surveys. Most surveys started out at 1000 for 10 min or there abouts and then for 20min they were 2000 but I know yesterday I did 2 or 3 that were over 20min each and only paid a dollar ie 1000 points.. It is very frustrating and they are catching up to the offerings on myview which they are the same company and its all about their profits the workers be damned.
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  2. There are various issues with the Digital Reflections meter people should be aware of, and if they are not technically aware they are putting themselves at some risk using it. The meter itself is designed to basically push all of your home network's data through it before allowing it to pass to and from the internet. It does this by fooling the other devices connected to your network into believing they should connect through it, not your home router/network gateway/cable-DSL modem. In effect, this allows the meter to see and report back on everything you do on any device connected to your network. Tablets, computers, laptops, smart devices, Wi-Fi or wired are all monitored. You need to be comfortable with the fact they have the potential to know literally everything about what you do online and monitor all of your traffic. This is where you have to trust that they are discarding or not requesting sensitive personal information or tying that back to you. But at the same time you have to trust their security because the device, if hacked into, completely exposes every piece of personal information you have -- passwords, bank account info, SSN, private work connections, etc. as soon as you type them in or display this information on a website you visit. That is why they ask in advance about VPN's, because the device bypasses whatever security a work VPN might offer if someone can get access to the meter. It is perfectly reasonable to assume if someone does hack the device, your personal information will be stolen and sold. Hackers probing insecure networks can probably identify and target the use of this device and have at it. That is why if you participate, you better be using good security practices on your home network and your employer will be very displeased if their security measures are rendered irrelevant because you used this device on an internet connection you use to log into work. I've had significant trouble with the meter because it creates a pseudo IP address for every connected device on my extensive home network. Normally I have around 35 devices connected to my router -- some wireless, others ethernet. A few hours after hooking the meter up, I suddenly had more than 70 devices assigned their own IP addresses. I can tell which ones are for the meter because they report with identifiers like: cpu31125481. This bogs down my router and significantly interferes with my connection in these ways: Slows down internet performance - since all internet traffic has to be rerouted through this device, it significantly slows down a connection in part by having to establish additional secure sessions and pass traffic back and forth through the meter. This is most noticeable on fast cable broadband connections where the user is accustomed to better performance. A DSL user or someone on Wi-Fi or a slower connection is less likely to notice. This problem only infrequently is apparent on internet speed tests because the bottleneck often occurs inside your home network, not on your internet connection. The router's DNS frequently gets messed up for reasons that are unknown to me. I'm not sure if the router or meter is simply inelegantly trying to deal with all of the unusual traffic or if the meter is conflicting with my own DNS selection. The extra virtual connections seem to be time limited and are replaced frequently with new ones (or just disappear altogether) without always flushing out old ones. On some occasions I have to manually flush the router of all connections and reboot it to restore internet connectivity or performance. If the meter has its own technical fault, your entire home network will crash and internet connectivity is severed until the device is disconnected (this has happened twice in three months). Resetting it usually resolves it but on one occasion I had to leave it disconnected for a day. Because it frequently assigns and then abandons IP addresses for the virtual devices it creates, the IP addresses assigned to your actual devices can change very frequently. This creates a major hassle for wireless printers because they are configured to use IP addresses not expected to change much, if at all. When they do, the result is your device can no longer find the printer on your network. I've been forced to reconfigure both my laser printers several times to get them back and available for shared use on my home network. For an unknown reason, I have not been able to fix an IP address to either printer and have it stick when the meter is connected. Fixed IPs only seem to work when the meter is disconnected. I have found technical support to not be very useful. They commiserate with your problems and claim to forward it to their technical specialists, but you never hear back from them. They expect you to put up with the degraded performance the device will cause on your network connection. The choice, at that point, is up to you - money or internet performance. The good news is the secure certificates they have you eventually install on your devices seem to work fine and create no issues. All of my troubles are with the meter itself. In my view, the programming behind the device's firmware is pretty poor and Digital Reflections should instead be considering supplying something like a modified router to panelists instead, where traffic measurement can be performed by the same device that powers a home network instead of diverting everything to an underpowered ancillary meter device.
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  3. After doing more research on this, technically we are supposed to report ANYTHING we received from survey companies in a calendar year, unless it specifically calls it a "gift". However, since anything under $600, most likely won't affect your tax bracket anyway, they are not required to report your earned income to the IRS until you reach that amount or higher by law.
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  4. Angelmimi here from Kentucky!!Hello all! Surveys and testing products for different companies is my stress breaker. I am in a room with 20 5 year olds all day and I just want piece and quiet! Use to take a lot of surveys but have been weeding them out. Any one heard what is going on with Hausernet the mailing assignment. Haven't been paid for awhile and I have worked for them for years. I was told went out of business but I still receive mail from them to put in computer.
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  5. Hello everyone, I'm cnote777 & I'm new to the site. I am a full time nursing student in college. I like to do surveys; however, I have been trying to unsubscribe Mindspay to no avail! Has anyone else had or has this problem with Mindspay?
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  6. I like it when web sites automatically remember your password and all I need to remember is my email.I wish they could all do this.This way it would help alleviate the need to remember all those different passwords.
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  7. I logged in early this morning and for some reason I have stayed logged in all day I usually have to log in every time I go on here.I wonder why
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  8. Hey... Yo everybody... This just might be a long journey here trying to explain who I am, but I'll try to be simple as I can and get straight to the point. Luckily I can type fast and typing don't wear me down really. I'm Derrick & I'm 32 years old. A real life I'm a graphics designer [freelancer] & a skilled IT Tech [Flextronics] outside of my virtual realm. I've been taking surveys for over 10 years. I have done surveys in all imaginable ways possible. From the emailed ones to random observers coming to my home for random research purposes. The home surveys where a little to intrusive. It felt like I was on a reality TV show or something, so its not something I think I'd be interested in doing in the future. I have done surveys of all kinds. On thing I have not done online was become active with others who take surveys online just as I do. Others who are consistent about doing surveys... Others who are building a more massive income around surveys by getting referrals and things of that nature. I just might learn some new skills here and pick up on something that could further help me in my survey ventures. I am definitely working to start a blog I will devote so much time and attention to explaining to other about the world of surveys. I plan to make it more transparent for normal everyday people to understand. People who meet me in my city learn about I get all kinds of free products and things of that nature and refuse to believe it comes from survey companies. I have to explain to others how to make it work for them as most of them never believed its actually real. I know there are millions of blogs about surveys, but my blog will be more in-depth and I will take people on screen as I complete them. I will show people mistakes not to make and what to pay attention too. Most of all.... Explain to survey takers how important it is to be honest... Most people just go inputting anything thinking they can get a quick buck and end up no where ... Welp, I think I'll shorten this here to wait on the responses to see the feedback I get from the readers here. I hope I didn't tire you guys out with this long semi-biography. I may never type long explanations on this forum afterwards...
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